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Make vertex colors visible

Working with color per vertex data

Assign colors to polygon vertices by painting

 

User Guide > Modeling > Polygonal Modeling > Coloring polygons > Working with color per vertex data > 

Assign colors to polygon vertices

You can manually assign color data to polygon vertices (CPV) using the Apply Color feature. The Apply Color feature provides a color editor to do this.

To assign a color to vertices

1. Select the vertices and choose Color > Apply Color > .
2. Do one of the following:
   • Click Replace color to set the color for these vertices.
   • Click either Add color or Subtract color to add or subtract the RGB values of the color you choose here to the current color of the vertices. This is useful for adding or subtracting white, red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, or magenta from a number of differently colored vertices at once.
3. Click the Color swatch to edit the color using the color editor, or click the Grab color button (eyedropper icon) and then click any pixel on the screen to pick up its color.
4. Click Apply Color.
   NoteColor per vertex animation will not work for polygonal objects which do not have modeling/construction history. You can quickly create history on a model by selecting the object and then choosing Edit Mesh > Transform Component, but moving nothing.

You can also create separate Color Per Vertex data for each instance of an object in your scene. This works very similarly to creating instanced Color Per UV data.

To create instanced Color Per Vertex data

1. -click an instance of an object and select Color Sets > Color Set Editor from the marking menu.

   The Color Set Editor appears.

2. In the Color Set Editor, click New.

   The Create Empty Color Set options appear.

3. Set Color Set Sharing to either Per Instance Shared or Per Instance Unshared depending on the behavior you want.